Why this beats applying to find out
- Every direct application is a hard enquiry, visible for two years.
- Six in a month reads as distress to the seventh lender.
- This runs the same arithmetic lenders use, and costs you nothing.
- It shows which lever to pull — card, EMI or tenure.
- Nothing is transmitted. The calculation happens in your browser.
What this works out
The largest loan your remaining EMI room can service. It is the second of the two calculations lenders run, and the one that almost always binds — the salary multiple gives a flattering headline, this gives the real number.
The calculator
Salary advance eligibility calculator
Change any figure and the results update as you type. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is stored.
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The credit card line people leave blank
Enter your card outstanding honestly and watch what happens. Lenders treat roughly 5% of the balance as a monthly obligation, whether or not you clear the bill in full every month. A ₹1 lakh outstanding therefore costs you about ₹5,000 of EMI room — which, on a ₹40,000 salary, is a quarter of everything you had.
This is the single most common reason someone is offered far less than they expected. It is also the fastest thing to fix: paying a card down before applying moves your eligibility immediately, in a way that arguing with the lender never will.
What the calculator cannot know
- Your credit score. This works out affordability. A weak score can reduce the amount further or cause a decline outright — see the low CIBIL page.
- Your employer category. A listed company employee and a small-firm employee on the same salary get different multiples.
- Whether your salary is bank-credited. If it is paid in cash, none of this applies — read the cash salary page first.
- The lender's own product cap. Many cap salary advances at about one month's take-home regardless of what your FOIR would allow.
So treat the result as your ceiling, not your offer. If the number here is small, the constraint is real and no lender will work around it.
Using the result properly
Try three things and watch the number move. Reduce the card outstanding by half. Remove one existing EMI. Extend the tenure by six months. Whichever produces the biggest jump is the lever worth pulling before you apply.
Then check the repayment on the EMI calculator, confirm you clear the five eligibility checks, and read how lenders arrive at the amount. If several EMIs are already running, start there instead — the answer may be to reduce what you owe rather than add to it.
A number here is a ceiling, not a recommendation. The advance salary loan guide covers whether a salary advance suits your situation, which matters more than how much of one you could technically obtain.
Three people, one salary, three answers
All three earn ₹45,000 net, and all three have ₹22,500 of total EMI room at a 50% ceiling. Enter their figures and the calculator produces very different numbers.
| What they already carry | Counted as | Room left | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ravi | Nothing | ₹0 | ₹22,500 |
| Neha | Bike EMI ₹4,500, card ₹60,000 | ₹7,500 | ₹15,000 |
| Arun | Personal loan ₹16,000, card ₹1.2L | ₹22,000 | ₹500 |
Arun and Ravi earn identically and get opposite answers. Notice too that Arun's card alone costs him ₹6,000 of room — more than Neha's entire bike EMI. The card field is the one most people leave blank, and it is usually the one doing the damage.
Which lever to pull first
Change one input at a time and watch the result. Whichever moves the number most is the thing worth acting on.
| Try this | Typical effect | How long it takes in reality |
|---|---|---|
| Halve the card balance | Usually the biggest jump | Reflects in 30 – 45 days |
| Remove one existing EMI | Large | Once the closure is reported |
| Extend tenure by 6 months | Moderate | Immediate — costs more interest |
| Raise FOIR from 50 to 60 | Large, but optimistic | Not in your control |
Do not raise the FOIR to make the number look better
Some lenders do work to 60%, and some are tighter than 50%. Entering 60 because it produces a friendlier figure is a way of lying to yourself — and the lender will apply its own number regardless. Use 50 and treat anything above that as a pleasant surprise.
Why your actual offer may be lower
This calculates affordability. Three things sit on top of it and can only reduce the figure.
- The product cap. Most lenders limit a salary advance to roughly one month's take-home whatever your affordability says. Someone earning ₹60,000 with no obligations may compute ₹3 lakh here and be offered ₹60,000 — and nothing is wrong. The amount page explains the cap.
- Your credit score. A weak score reduces the amount or causes a decline outright, whatever the arithmetic. The score page covers where the bands sit.
- Your employer category. Two people with identical numbers get different multiples depending on who pays them. More on that here.
So treat the result as the most you could support, not the offer you will receive. If the number here is small, that constraint is real and no lender will engineer around it.
Entering figures honestly
The calculator is only as useful as what you feed it, and there are three places people flatter themselves.
- Income. Net take-home, after PF and tax — not CTC, and not including variable pay the lender will exclude anyway.
- Existing EMIs. All of them, including any loan you guaranteed for someone else. That appears on your credit report as your obligation whether you pay it or not.
- Card outstanding. The balance, not the minimum due, and not zero because you clear the bill monthly. Lenders count a share of the balance regardless.
A flattering input produces a flattering answer and then a disappointing sanction letter. An honest one tells you what to fix before anyone else sees the file.
What to do with the number
If the result comfortably covers what you need, check the repayment on the EMI calculator and work through the five eligibility checks before applying — affordability is only one of them.
If it falls short, do not apply and hope. Pull the lever that moved the number most, wait for it to reflect on your credit report, and apply then. The existing-EMI page goes through the arithmetic in more depth, and if several instalments are already running, consolidation may be the honest answer rather than another loan.
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